First of all two thousand twelve, two thousand shmelve! This year has flown by! Can you believe December is already over? I got my mission call in the mail a year ago! Second,Christmas was SO GREAT!!!! Talking to you gave me a big boost! I think we should do that every Tuesday! I really appreciate all your support you guys are the best! Honestly. The rest of Christmas was just a regular day. We weren't allowed to knock doors but we just visited some recent converts and families in the ward. We actually didn't visit as many people as we had planned because people kept wanting to feed us and my stomach was not keeping any food! All week it was a struggle, I don't know if I ate something bad or had a virus or something but I couldn't eat. But it provided some entertainment, this one really cute Mexican Hermana likes to feed all of us missionaries after our district meetings on Friday her food is really good but really authentic and she expects us to eat TONS! The elders told us she would be really offended if we didn't come so they said they'd help out. Every time the hermana turned around one of the elders would slip something off my plate. It was pretty funny because there was trails of food all over the table! I would just have to take a bite of rice when she looked my direction. I am all good now, finally, because I have been dying to eat some of that chocolate I got for Christmas!
Alright, I wish I could send the spirit of a baptism through email! Antonio's baptism was amazing. It was mostly amazing to me because we had been reviewing everything for his baptism and we realized that from the first lesson we had with him to his baptism was exactly a month! He was so prepared to hear the gospel. It was a special baptism because the hermano that he chose to baptize him is only a convert of 2 years and this was his first time baptizing someone. Both talks at the baptism were people who were also converted recently, and they didn't give a talk they just went up and bore testimony to him about how the gospel has changed their life. It was really amazing to be surrounded by these people who have changed their life to be baptized and then reach out and be there to support Antonio at his baptism! I can't express how cool it is to be a part of missionary work. I hope while everyone is making new years goals you set a goal about what you can do to be a part of missionary work. Whether that is helping convert yourself more or reaching out to someone else, but seriously you will see miracles when you do!
One of my favorite miracles this week happened yesterday at church. Hermana Whetten had to give a talk in our reseda ward and I had to give a talk in the young single adult ward, they meet in the same building at the same time so we went on splits with the members. Every time I sat down to write the my talk it just wouldn't come. I had an idea of what I wanted to say and things I wanted to use, but I wanted to have it written out because I was really nervous about the spanish. But for some reason I felt like I shouldn't write it all out, it didn't feel right every time I tried. So, I went up to the pulpit with a Liahona, my Libro de Mormon and a paper with 5 bullet points on it....AH! I get nervous to give talks in english, this was in spanish and I didn't know exactly what I was going to say! It was the coolest thing! Well first of all, this boy in the ward had his parents in town from Mexico, they were quite a bit older, and they sat front and center and they were soo cute. They nodded their head and smiled at me the whole time. So I recommend that if you are nervous to give a talk have a cute old Mexican couple be front row. I went up there and started by bearing my testimony about missionary work because I was nervous and couldn't think of anything else. After that somehow I was able to talk for 15 minutes. Stories came to mind, a part of a talk I had read came to mind, and I was able to express them in Spanish Which I don't know if I have mentioned this before, but usually that is really hard for me! The Holy Ghost really can help us know the things we should say in the moment we need them. I also learned that I only need to be willing to testify of things that I know, then the spirit will back me up and be there with the people I am speaking with. I don't know why I couldn't write my talk out but I am really grateful for that experience because my faith grew so much.
LOVE LOVE LOVE!
Hermana Mulliner
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